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The Thaumatrope is an old toy that was made from either a card or a disk attached to 2 strings on each side. When you twirled the string the pictures would look like they were moving together. This was the first version of animation.
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Celluloid is a material that sensitive to light and was used for many different things. One day 3 men by the names of John Carbutt, Hannibal Goodwin and George Eastman used it for photography. Eastman Kodak made it commercially available.
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Eadweard Muybridge and his friends were sitting at the race track and Eadweard said that he thought that a horses legs were all in the air at one point. None of his friends believed him so they made a bet. To prove his theory he set up a row of cameras down the track and they took pictures as the horse ran. He combined the photos together and they looked like they were moving. Him and his friends decided to sell this idea and invented the idea of film.
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Etienne Marey was a French man who invented a camera that took up to 12 pictures per second. It was also shaped like a gun. This camera helped develop chronophotographe art.
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The first private screening was held at the Society for the Development of the National Industry in Paris. There was 200 people in the audience.
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The first full time cinema opens. It was in Los Angeles.It was called Tally's Electric Theatre.
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Birth of a Nation is one of the first full length movies. Nickelodeon had to raise the prices of their shows because of this.
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The first Talkies were released. A talkie was a movie with sound. All of the movies before this one were silent.
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The fist drive-in movie theater was opened in New Jersey.People would sit in their cars and watch the movies.
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The antitrust laws stated that movies were to only be shown in theaters. This caused a lot of the movie theaters we see today.
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A movie theater debuted with stereo sound systems and a big screen for the first time. This was the first one in history to do this.
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The film industry started to come up with more themes in this decade. Most of the old films were the same genre, so they came up with new ones.
